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Old January 26th, 2004, 09:24 PM
Billy Burwick
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Default Q: How many NG subscribers does it take...

that is great
LMAO

Peace
Billyb

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"Howard" wrote in message
...
... to change a light bulb?
A: 1,343

1 to change the light bulb and to post to the news group that the
light bulb has been changed;

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the
light bulb could have been changed differently;

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs;

27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light
bulbs;

53 to flame the spell checkers;

41 to correct spelling/grammar flames;

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb";

6 more to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive;

156 to write to the group administrator about the light bulb
discussion and its inappropriateness to this news group;

109 to post that this news group is not about light bulbs and to
please take this email exchange to litebulb-l;

203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and
illuminati-l about changing light bulbs be stopped;

111 to defend the posting to this news group saying that we all use
light bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list;

306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where
to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for
this technique and what brands are faulty;

27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs;

14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the
corrected URL's;

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to
this news group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group;

33 to link all posts to date, then quote them including all headers
and footers and then add "Me too";

12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot
handle the light bulb controversy;

19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three";

4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ;

44 to ask what is "FAQ";

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago on
Usenet?"

143 to ask "what's Usenet?"

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